Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flamboyant Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, fresh from his successful defense of Lynette "Squeaky" Frame in her legal appeal, begins working to "clear the name" of Samuel Mudd, the Maryland doctor found guilty of assisting John Wilkes Booth by giving the assassin medical succor during his escape. In return, grateful NBC anchorman Roger Mudd--a descendant of the doctor--promises Dershowitz "all the air time he wants...
That 23-22 loss goes down on the ledger as the last regular-season game in Bryant's 38 head-coaching years at Maryland, Kentucky, Texas A&M and Alabama...
Williams will continue to expand the Adams tree family. Each spring he will take a few seeds from the old tree and start them out on a Maryland farm. After three years of growth, they will be transplanted to their permanent homes. None of the cousins will be so special as the one planted in March on the Jefferson mound. It has the classic vase shape of Ulmus americana. Its trunk is already 4-in. in diameter, and its upper branches in a couple of years will brush the lower limbs of the patriarch. It will be ready to stand...
...special news-media issue of the Wilson Quarterly, Professor Lawrence W. Lichty at the University of Maryland challenges the idea that TV news is so dominant. Judging the argument involves assessing the nitpicking of several interested parties. Back in 1959 the Roper Organization, commissioned by the television industry, began asking this question, repeating it every two years: "Where do you usually get most of your news about what's going on in the world today"? The last time, in 1980, 64% cited TV, 44% newspapers, 18% radio, 5% magazines and 4% "talking to people." But that adds...
...branch of the Department of Defense, the NSA has the primary task of monitoring the communications of foreign governments and protecting the electronic communications of the United States. Thousands of listening posts worldwide and a vast computer complex in Maryland allow the NSA to tap into and record all electronic messages entering or leaving the country. A 1975 post-Watergate Senate panel described the NSA setup as a "giant vacuum cleaner." But unlike domestic law-enforcement agencies, which must obtain a warrant from a Federal Judge before tapping phone messages, the NSA gets warrants from a special secret panel...